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Shelly Hehenberger

Oil and Cold Wax Medium, Mixed Media Painting and Drawing

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Cold Wax Medium and Oil on Wood Panel

This page features examples of my work using Dorlan’s cold wax, an oil-based medium designed to be combined with mixtures of oil paint and other elements to create highly textural and layered surfaces. See close up views of this dimensional work.

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The images below are examples of my single panel work

Swimming Inward Again  10" x 10"
I Dreamed I Was Made of Branches  18"x24"
Shapes of My Earth  30" x 24"
Dream of Reef  18"x 18"
St Francis Finds His Happy Place  22"x28"
In the Brisk Restlessness  22"x28"
A Seed Will Find a Way  -sold
Tiny Pieces Narrating  12"x 24"
Garish Impossible Story of Life  18"x 24"
The Impatience of Matter   -sold
The Drama and The Tenacity  18"x24"
Lorelei's Melody   -sold
Gossamer Spaces  30"x 40"
They Woke Up Singing   22"x 28"
Green Novelty  18"x18"
The Story Continues  9"x12"
Vision of Applied Mycology  11" x 14"
Wave Theory III   12"x 12"
Vertical Mycelium  12"x12"
Wave Theory II   12"x 12"
Indelible Immovable Feast 12"x 24"
Alleluia Hides in the Weeds 18"x 24"
Swimming Inward    -sold
Unexpected Universe 12"x 24"
One Bloom of Millions 9"x 12"
Where Wild Things Grow  -sold
Awake Beneath the Waves -sold
St Francis Finds His Happy Place  -sold
Spinning a Fine Yarn   -sold
Dominion of the Tiny     -sold
Wave Theory I      -sold
The Light Saw You Watching      -sold
Lavish Divine Reach 11"x 14"
Delightfully Monstrous     -sold
Wild Reclamation II   -sold
Wild Reclamation I   -sold
Mycelium  -sold
Cave of Forgotten Dreams  16"x20"
New Arboreal Charisma  36"x 24"
Symbiotic Verdancy   11" x 14"  -sold
Endearing Oasis   -sold
Archetype   16" x 20"

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The images below are examples of my multiple panel work

Harvest Moon diptych  25" x 12"
Beyond the Utility of Survival  40"x 83" -sold
Dominion of the Tiny triptych    -sold
Undercurrent triptych    -sold
Jardin Doux triptych   -sold
New Vessel Unearthed diptych   -sold
Dream Reef diptych   -sold
Arboreal triptych  12" x 38" -nfs
Vertical Paths triptych   -sold
Heaven and Earth diptych  74" x 48" -sold

Shelly Hehenberger

My work is a meditation on the patterns and forms in the natural sciences, explored through the process of drawing and painting. See my Artist Statement

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